NEW: Sex Chat and Sedative Cost Doctor His License

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Monday, August 22, 2011

GoLocalProv News Team

A Rhode Island doctor has had his license suspended by the Health Department after drugging a female patient and making sexual advances towards her.

Dr. Afshin Nasseri gave the patient an injection of Midazolam, a sedative that is most commonly used before endoscopy or colonoscopy procedures and causes temporary amnesia. Nasseri administered this drug to a female patient who came to his office earlier this month complaining of pain in her right shoulder, according to the Department of Health.

Nasseri asked the patient to disrobe and put on an examination gown. After injecting the drug, Nasseri “asked the patient about her sex life and then returned with a needle and syringe and administered it to her left arm,” the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline states in its suspension order.

Nasseri then turned off the lights and told the woman “to relax.”

After that, Nasseri “kissed her on the mouth and moved her legs,” according to the patient’s complaint. He also allegedly called her cell phone on “numerous occasions,” offering to visit her at home.

Not the first time doctor lost license

The woman also complained to the Lincoln Police Department, which investigated the incident and interviewed Nasseri. During one tape-recorded interview, he admitted to administering the drug.

But a Health Department inspection turned up no record in the patient’s file of the Midazolam injection.

This is not the first time Nasseri has lost his license. In 2007, he voluntarily surrendered his license due to an “episodic medical condition” that rendered him unable to “practice safely.” He was later reinstated after agreeing to be monitored by the Physician Health Committee of the Rhode Island Medical Society.

After his reinstatement, Nasseri also was required to have a “mentor and a practice manager” as well as a “chaperone” in the room for examinations of all female patients.

The state is not aware of any other complaints against Nasseri. However, any patient of his who received or thinks they may have received an injection that sedated them and caused temporary amnesia is asked to contact Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline’s Complaint Unit at 401-222-2507.

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